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• Irrigated agriculture now worth more than $15 billion

  
  QLD Country Hour

  By Kallee Buchanan

  Posted September 15, 2016 11:30:36

  The value of irrigated agricultural production in Australia has hit more than $15 billion.

  Topics: rural, sheep-production, goat-production, dairy-production, beef-cattle, crop-harvesting, wool, wheat, viticulture, vegetables, sugar, rice, oilseeds, herbs, grain, fruits, fruit, flowers, cotton, agricultural-prices, bundaberg-4670, wa, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, nsw, act

• Aboriginal Land Council eyes export market for Wilcannia goats

  
  ABC Broken Hill

  By Declan Gooch and Cherie von Horchner

  Posted September 12, 2016 09:39:33 | Updated September 12, 2016 10:43:02

  An Indigenous group with plans to ramp up goat farming activity in outback New South Wales has its eyes firmly set on the export market.

  Topics: rural, livestock, goat-production, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, regional, regional-development, wilcannia-2836

• Voluntary tags for rangeland goats in Victorian livestock tag changes

  
  Vic Country Hour

  By Emma Brown

  Posted September 01, 2016 12:26:55

  Goat industry relieved it won't be forced to handle and tag feral animals under Victorian mandatory tagging policy.

  Topics: goat-production, pest-management, pests, livestock-welfare, livestock, mildura-3500, melbourne-3000

• Wellard posts disappointing result on the ASX

  
  ABC Rural

  By Belinda Varischetti

  Posted August 31, 2016 17:10:05 | Updated September 01, 2016 08:59:40

  Australia's largest livestock export company Wellard says it needs to regain the confidence of the investment community after a tumultuous eight months on the ASX.

  Topics: beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, sheep-production, rural, agribusiness, markets, stockmarket, business-economics-and-finance, goat-production, industry

• You're kidding: Demand for live dairy goat exports rising

  
  QLD Country Hour

  By Kallee Buchanan

  Posted August 04, 2016 17:22:35 | Updated August 04, 2016 18:03:26

  Demand for live dairy goats from Australia is growing, according to the Dairy Goat Society of Australia's federal export officer.

  Topics: rural, women-in-agriculture, trade, dairy-production, goat-production, mundubbera-4626

• Goat meat prices at record levels as international demand grows for Australian product

  
  ABC Rural

  By Daisy Hatfield

  Posted August 03, 2016 17:55:36

  Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) is forecasting the market for goat meat will continue to go from strength-to-strength.

  Topics: goat-production, markets, agricultural-prices, trade, animals, mount-isa-4825

• Australian goat meat exported to highly-regulated Russian market

  
  WA Country Hour

  By Lucinda Jose

  Posted August 01, 2016 15:29:29

  Australian goat meat is promoted as a protein alternative to banned Australian beef in Russia. 

  Topics: livestock, rural, goat-production, geraldton-6530, australia, russian-federation

• Goat meat business grows into producing gelato and soap

  
  ABC Rural

  By Mark Jeffery

  Posted July 29, 2016 12:25:52

  A dairy in north Queensland starts producing niche goat's milk products after farming goat meat.

  Topics: goat-production, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, dairy-production, townsville-4810, wulguru-4811

• MLA launches digital data strategy for meat

  
  ABC Rural

  By Rosemary Grant

  Posted July 22, 2016 13:50:17 | Updated July 22, 2016 13:51:37

  Meat and Livestock Australia is developing a digital strategy with industry to capture and use data generated through new technology.

  Topics: beef-cattle, goat-production, sheep-production, food-processing, agricultural-marketing, computers-and-technology, inveresk-7248

• The steer that thinks he is a goat

  
  QLD Country Hour

  By Kallee Buchanan

  Posted July 22, 2016 10:12:49

  Knocker the steer was raised on goat's milk among a dairy goat herd, and his owner says now he acts like a goat as well.

  Topics: rural, beef-cattle, dairy-production, goat-production, mundubbera-4626

• MLA manages new project to protect Australian livestock industries

  
  ABC Rural

  By Joanna Prendergast

  Posted July 21, 2016 15:19:11

  Australian livestock producers need to cast aside stigma and actively report disease on their properties, according to Meat and Livestock Australia.

  Topics: beef-cattle, agricultural-crops, goat-production, pig-production, sheep-production, agribusiness, melbourne-3000

• Goats make the best farmhands according to a Queensland grazier

  
  QLD Country Hour

  By Kallee Buchanan

  Posted July 12, 2016 08:58:31 | Updated July 12, 2016 09:49:11

  A grazier says his weed control bills are now a lot less, thanks to the goats.

  Topics: rural, pest-management, beef-cattle, goat-production, golden-fleece-4621, bundaberg-4670

• Goat meat for Warruwi centenary celebrations

  
  ABC Rural

  By Matt Brann

  Posted June 17, 2016 16:40:18 | Updated June 18, 2016 08:11:08

  Goat will definitely be on the menu at next week's centenary celebrations in the Northern Territory community of Warruwi.

  Topics: rural, catholic, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, pests, pest-management, goat-production, darwin-0800

• Earless nanny goat has triplets

  
  SA Country Hour

  By Cassandra Steeth

  Posted June 03, 2016 08:32:46 | Updated June 03, 2016 08:59:01

  An earless nanny goat is fast becoming a local celebrity in south-west Victoria, after defying death as a kid and becoming the mother of triplets.

  Topics: goat-production, babies---newborns, mount-gambier-5290

• Goat meat price hits all-time high

  
  SA Country Hour

  By Cherie von Hörchner

  Posted June 02, 2016 17:12:00

  Goat meat prices smash records as supply tightens for export market.

  Topics: sheep-production, goat-production, pests, trade, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000

• Gascoyne goats served up on US plates

  
  WA Country Hour

  By Eliza Wood

  Posted May 31, 2016 15:02:06

  Station owners in Western Australia's Gascoyne region receive exceptional money for export feral goats.

  Topics: goat-production, pest-management, carnarvon-6701

• Top End's first agricultural show for 2016 Feature

  
  ABC Rural

  NT Country Hour

  Posted May 13, 2016 16:26:03 | Updated May 14, 2016 16:28:06

  Thousands of people have been making their way through the gates of the Freds Pass rural show this weekend.

  Topics: poultry-and-egg-production, agricultural-shows, goat-production, darwin-0800

• Feral goats a god-send for struggling graziers

  
  ABC Rural

  By Aimee Volkofsky

  Posted May 13, 2016 14:28:19 | Updated May 13, 2016 15:03:05

  With prices at market rivalling those of lamb, feral goats have been a saviour for many producers in western NSW. So are they a pest or a god-send?

  Topics: goat-production, pest-management, pests, national-parks, broken-hill-2880, wilcannia-2836, bourke-2840, mildura-3500

• 'Goat is the new black' as demand for meat booms

  
  ABC Rural

  By Nikolai Beilharz

  Posted March 30, 2016 14:55:17 | Updated March 31, 2016 16:42:39

  One of Victoria's largest goat farmers says he's struggling to keep up with demand, as more consumers look for alternative meats.

  Topics: rural, food-processing, food-and-cooking, goat-production, vic

• Farmers calling for bigger rural crime deterrents

  
  NSW Country Hour

  By Sally Bryant

  Posted February 19, 2016 16:12:18 | Updated February 22, 2016 08:01:12

  Deputy Premier of NSW Troy Grant, says his Government will use other states as a template for stronger rural crime legislation.

  Topics: crime, crime-prevention, livestock, sheep-production, beef-cattle, goat-production, government-and-politics

• Aboriginal community turns a profit from feral goats and saltbush

  
  ABC Rural

  By Carmen Brown

  Posted February 16, 2016 14:36:14 | Updated February 17, 2016 09:36:44

  For the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges, feral goats have become a lucrative source of income.

  Topics: rural, environment, rural-tourism, bush-tucker, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, goat-production, port-pirie-5540, port-augusta-5700

• Mayors lock horns over need for new goat abattoir

  
  QLD Country Hour

  By Hailey Renault and Sally Bryant

  Posted February 08, 2016 13:25:32

  Bourke's plan to develop a new goat abattoir has sparked a debate about the future of goat production in Queensland.

  Topics: goat-production, livestock, rural, charleville-4470, bourke-2840

• ALEC reports good feedback from pilot programs for alternative animal welfare standards

  
  ABC Rural

  By Clint Jasper

  Posted February 02, 2016 14:27:00 | Updated February 02, 2016 15:26:40

  Trials of an alternative animal welfare assurance system recently wrapped up in Jordan, Indonesia and Malaysia.

  Topics: beef-cattle, sheep-production, livestock-welfare, goat-production, adelaide-5000, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, brisbane-4000, darwin-0800, hobart-7000

• Drought conditions hit Tasmanian farmers as dam levels dwindle

  
  936 ABC Hobart

  By Margot Kelly and Sallese Gibson

  Posted January 15, 2016 13:22:21 | Updated January 15, 2016 15:24:08

  After the hottest and driest spring on record for Tasmania in 2015, dams are drying up, and dairy, beef and sheep farms are destocking.

  Topics: agricultural-subsidies, drought, goat-production, irrigation, water-supply, hydro-energy

• Drought conditions hit Tasmanian farmers as dam levels dwindle

  
  936 ABC Hobart

  By Margot Kelly and Sallese Gibson

  Posted January 15, 2016 13:22:21 | Updated January 15, 2016 15:31:32

  After the hottest and driest spring on record for Tasmania in 2015, dams are drying up, and dairy, beef and sheep farms are destocking.

  Topics: agricultural-subsidies, drought, goat-production, irrigation, water-supply, hydro-energy